- Experts are airing concerns about deep-pocketed billionaires and anti-aging
- Long just a pipe dream, the concept of a modern-day Methuselah – the biblical grandfather of Noah who lived to 969 – is becoming more and more likely
- Experts fear that deep-pocketed billionaires will soon be able to use their wealth to increase their lifespans – allowing them additional time to add to their fortunes
- Christopher Wareham, who studies aging at Utrecht University warns that such advances could ‘exacerbate all the kinds of existing inequalities that we have’
Alex Hammer – Daily Mail.com Jan 5, 2023
Experts are airing concerns that deep-pocketed billionaires will soon be able to use their vast wealth to increase their lifespans – allowing them additional time to add to their billions.
The scary hypothesis – which seems like something out of a science fiction novel – has been laid by an increasing amount of scientists in recent years, amid recent strides in anti-aging science.
Long just a pipe dream, the concept of a modern-day Methuselah – the biblical grandfather of Noah who lived to 969 – is becoming more and more likely.
That said, the concept of a driven mogul like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates being blessed with an ever-lasting lifespan is not so appealing to some.
Included in that camp is bioethicist Christopher Wareham, who believes such advances could ‘exacerbate all the kinds of existing inequalities that we have’ already.
Speaking to The Financial Times Monday, Wareham – a professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands – stated that while scientists now have a better handle on what causes us to get old, solutions such as cell-flushing vaccines and pricey, cure-all pills will remain out reach for the everyman.
‘Suppose, for example, we had a kind of vaccine for the pandemic of age,’ Wareham, who studies the ethics of aging, told The Times.
‘This is going to potentially exacerbate all the kinds of existing inequalities that we have.
He warned that such advances could create further disparity in an already divided nation.
‘The longer you’re around, the more your wealth compounds,’ Wareham said. ‘And the wealthier you are, the more political influence you have.’
Wareharm is not alone in his concerns – as figures such as Bezos, 58, Israeli entrepreneur Yuri Milner, and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin Funnel money into ventures meant to make deaths before 100 a thing of the past.
Richard Branson, centre (Click to enlarge)
Other, older funders include Gates, 67, Richard Branson, 67, and Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, 80, who have all provided prominent financial backup to companies investigating how to lengthen lives in recent years.
Progress, however, has been somewhat slow until – that is, until relatively recently, where breakthroughs in understanding what causes the aging process, such as damage to our DNA and proteins that misbehave because of outside alterations, have been gleaned by scientists in their quest for the proverbial fountain of youth.
Researchers in Cambridge, for instance, have successfully reprogrammed skin cells from people aged 38 and 53 – something scientists say could make them ‘younger’ by 30 years.
The method rewinds the ageing clock further than previous reprogramming methods without damaging the cells.
Researchers say they are even able partly to restore functions that have been lost in older cells.
While the research is still in its early stages, the findings could eventually revolutionize regenerative medicine, especially if it can be replicated in other cell types and other tissues in the body, the researchers claim.
Another class treatments being billed as breakthrough by age scientists is ‘senolytics,’ which targets aged cells that biologists have tabbed as ‘senescent cells’ that seem to accumulate in our bodies as we age.
Scientists have recently discovered that cells seem to drive the aging process – causing cancer and other disorders that become increasingly prevalent as we age.
In studies involving animals, the removal of these cells, scientist have found, seems to slow the process down – with some positing that it could perhaps even reverse it.
Currently, there are more than two dozen companies looking for safe and effective ways to get rid of these cells in people – the biggest being Unity Biotechnology, which was founded by Mayo Clinic scientists who have successfully used the treatments on mice
The company, which started only last year, has already raised hundreds of millions of high-profile investors including Bezos, one of its top backers.
While promising, the treatment remains experimental and largely inaccessible to most, though scientists like Wareham and Nir Barzilai – the director of the Institute for Aging Research at New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine – are saying that thanks to advances over the past year, humans may be able to undergo the treatment by the end of the year.
‘We are done with hope and promise. We are at the point between having promise and realising it,’ The Israeli-American scientist told The Financial Times this week, as other remain similarly hopeful.
Andrew Steele, a computational biologist and author of a new book on longevity, told DailMail.com that there is no biological reason humans can’t reach the age of 200.
He believes the big breakthrough will come in the form of drugs that remove ‘zombie cells’ in the body, which are thought to be one of the main culprits of tissue and organ decay as we age.
Pills that flush these cells out of the body are already in human trials in and could be on the market in as little as 10 years, according to Steele, who believes Americans could make it to 150 with the help of the drugs.
Another field in particular that piques the interest of anti-aging scientists is the study of DNA of reptiles and other cold-blooded animals.
Michigan State University experts have begun studying dozens different types of long-living reptiles and amphibians — including crocodiles, salamanders and turtles that can live as long as 120 years. The team hope they will uncover ‘traits’ that can also be targeted in humans.
Some experts, meanwhile, think that eradicating the big killers – cancer, dementia and heart disease – could be the true key to longevity.
Others, such Warharm, have grappled with the ethical side of scientists’ search for an answer to the age-old question of aging, with
Chief Executive of longevity nonprofit Hevolution Foundation Mehmood Khan, for example, telling The Times that his organization is only funding products that can be ‘democratized’ and made available to the masses.
‘If this is going to be a gazillion-dollars’ worth of treatment for a handful of people, it is of no interest.’
These deep-pocketed billionaires will still die if they get a bullet in the head or stabbed in the heart with a knife, or suffer a fatality. And no matter how much wealth they accumulate, they won’t be able to take it with them when they die. And, furthermore, a billion years from now…who’ll care?
Death will always be with us. Even seas and mountains and stars eventually pass away. If a man can be burnt to a crisp, drowned, crushed flat, fall from height etc then death is ever-present during his lifetime, meaning it will also be there at the end of it.
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These idiots are trying to figure out a way to not have to visit their eternal home. Good luck with that.
More nonsense from the propaganda machine meant to depress the goyim.
“Immortal”
The best thing they can do is to give their money to causes which would please the Father who is immortal.
Though they don’t want the end to come, most very rich men are facilitating the very thing…
We hate Bezos or Gates as much as they love themselves, and this is where the natural balance is; Hate is under-rated
Anti-aging science presumes a special knowledge of life that diminishes death…
However, these are the same people who have abundantly diminished the lives of others, giving them more power over death than life…
So, how can they parlay the implementation of death of others into a special knowledge of life to benefit themselves?
Where and when have they demonstrated a special knowledge of life first, and then shining this light of tour-de-force science upon themselves?
Dream on, Billionaires…
It’s the age-old dream of the fountain of youth, beloved of narcissists of all times.
Maybe they can add another 10 or 20 years to their lives – maybe – but thet cannot postpone the visit from The Reaper indefinitely. Like their delusions about a superconscious God-like AI, and their other demented, materialist dreams of “divine technology”, it will not work.
Bill Gates would be better off losing his huge gut if he wants to extend his life. Schwab and Musk too.
There is NO way on GOD’s earth that these monsters will live past the age GOD has allowed them to live. HE keeps them around for awhile for HIS purpose, but life here is so amazingly short compared with eternity. Some of them may increase their life span by using young blood products (which is immensely evil!), but they will ultimately die, and it won’t be a sweet death! Immediately after death (and they will die) they will be in GOD’s court. They will confess all their dreadful sins and King Jesus will judge them immediately. However, it will be too late for them to repent. That must be done here on this earth before they die. Their god, Satan, has them deceived into thinking they can live for a long, long time, but they will die. Satan told Adam and Eve that they would not die if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They chose to believe Satan rather than GOD, and they died. GOD laughs at them for HE sees that their day is coming (Psalm 2).
“elderly billionaires”….code for ‘old yids’.
Ha..Ha….’Experts feel’ …..’billionaires will become immortal’…. (the fail never fails..top quality pabulum)…
True…. they’ve been sifting through all the DNA they have managed to collect from all you hypochondriac lab rats..in search of the ‘immortal’ gene..
But you would have to get that from an ‘immortal’..
wouldn’t you?… and l should imagine they are quite rare…
Still… there’s a good chance of sudden unexpected death in all of this gene tampering lark..
So there may be some good ‘news’ at the end of it all for the ‘experts’ at the Daily Fail…
Sentient cancer that has gone insane, with a fear of death that is proportionate to their malignant insanity. So they seek to keep expanding upon that which they already have too much of. Good gawd…adding to their billion$. That’s it?
NB: One can just imagine the decrepit Bond villain Schwab sat in his study sipping green tea and sitting uncomfortably on his ginseng suppositories..(prescribed by fauci)
glancing nervously at his Breitling ( a present from Bill)…
Waiting for the call from Nosferatu Harari at lmmortality.inc®….who have promised him an eternity looking at that ghastly face in the mirror…
and the same awful after dinner anecdotes……….
forever and ever…
Amen….
After all the degeneracy, hunger and destruction these billionaire monsters have caused; if society allows them to live pass the age of 100, more the fool on us. Not to be confused with good people who live that long.
Benny Hill :
LOL
In my Taoism, sleep and death are both yang, and it is necessary to acknowledge (visit) both yin and yang, existence and non-existence; they both cannot be denied
Ann Blue and others here are correct–God is in control!
And memo to those “billionaires” thinking they can live forever and thus avoid the (likely, unless they repent) Lake of Fire or Outer Darkness (“where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth”–JC)–maybe you all should stop living in your LARPer fantasy world and read the Book of Genesis Chapter 6, where God, not the “sons of God” creating Nephilim, decided who would survive the Great Flood… Only this time it’ll likely be the Great Fire if you know what I mean… And doesn’t Satan consume his own?
These billionaire freaks will need first to reverse the second law of thermodynamics; entropy; which will never happen. Just look at Klaus mug; can it get even uglier?
Oh brother. Take a good look at those 3 stooges at the top of the piece, if you can stomach it. All 3 of them laughably ugly, though the utterly grotesque visage of Bezos is as cringingly revolting as it is laughable. The there’s the dysgenic pencil-neck uber-nerd Gatestein and his skin-flint physique; the body of a sickly boy and the mind of a psychotic monster, arms flailing about as if his hair were n fire…which it should be, along with the rest of him.
Last but not least is Buffet, looking like fate has played some cruel joke on that aged Howdy Doody face only his mother could love, and even that certainly isn’t certain. Is it too late for a retroactive abortion for him? His face so puppet-like, begging for someone to play ventriloquist and shove a beefy arm far up his ass to get him to say something other than “money”. The ventriloquist should feel free to do humanity a favor and disembowel Buffet by grasping on to whatever on the way out then cinching it tightly around Buffet’s throat.
Lower down the page, we’re forced to look at the buffoonish putrid c*nt Branson, posing 3/4 of the way to the drawn-and-quartered fate he deserves. Shame that was an egregious missed opportunity while he was in that position. There is no punishment too cruel, unusual, or excruciatingly painful enough for anyone who would pose with the flag of Satan’s preferred terrorists.
Bezos though, ugghh, one would think he would be much more driven to invest in how to morph that hideous, ghoulish mug into something resembling human rather than living another 100 years having to look at that. Of course, the bigger mystery is how the fiend manages to look at himself at all without projectile vomiting all over the mirror, much more for what he has done and some semblance of a conscience kicking in than for his nightmare inducing visage…now THAT’S a gruesome twosome.
Bezos is one of those rare creatures who could only achieve aesthetic improvement if his face were covered in hobo shit. We should try it…after giving him a sound flogging, of course.
Why does God hate us so for not only propelling these monsters into our midst, but also for seemingly doing so at a rapid-fire pace these dark days? This satanic inversion thing is really wearing thin. The dear Les Visible would probably say it is for “purposes of demonstration”, and he probably isn’t wrong, but this parade of the absurd has to draw down already, for f*ck’s sake.
This was always the plan. A small, immortal transhuman elite. The rest, exterminated.
Who wants to live forever? Our bodies are mortal but our spirit is immortal.